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Category: Joseph Ritson

19th Century…

Playing Robin Hood in the Victorian Nursery

21 Jun 202021 Jun 2020
By Stephen Basdeo Thomas Rowland argues that for most of the “mythic” outlaw’s history, “Robin was much more a character of ludic texts, of play games and festival culture, than…
17th century…

“The Truth and Nothing But the Truth”: Its first use in popular culture

20 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo ‘The truth and nothing but the truth’—it’s a well-known phrase used in courts of law and most of us have probably heard it in some police procedural…
15th Century…

Joseph Ritson’s Discovery of “Robin Hood and the Monk” (1465)

28 Jan 2020
By Stephen Basdeo While researching my book, Discovering Robin Hood: The Life of Joseph Ritson: Gentleman, Scholar, and Revolutionary, I came across some fascinating information. I give below a snippet…
18th century…

The Working Man’s Robin Hood: The Writings of Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)

24 Jan 202024 Jan 2020
By Stephen Basdeo In 1832, the publisher Charles Knight had a bright idea: every Saturday he would publish a new magazine which whose aim was to educate working-class readers about…
18th century…

“Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption”: Joseph Ritson’s Account of an 18th-Century General Election

11 Dec 201917 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo As a general election is looming here in the UK, I thought I might give readers a glimpse into elections of the eighteenth century, as seen through…
18th century…

Joseph Ritson the Radical

5 Sep 201915 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo Joseph Ritson was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752 to a poor yeoman family. As a child, he attended the local Unitarian Sunday School where his talents intellectual…

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